Falling Flower (A Meanie Fanfic)

14. Is It Still Beautiful

The walk down the mountain was cloaked in silence.

At the residence a message from Jeonghan was already awaiting Wonwoo.

Apparently, they finally found the warehouse filled with poisons and drugs and Minister Kim was caught red handed. Jeonghan wanted Wonwoo to return as soon as possible.

So the next day, they started their journey back. Akward silence infested the air around the prince and his guard which infected even their company.

Wonwoo rushed to Jeonghan's residence the moment he reached the royal grounds. After everything that happened, all he needed was a distraction and this investigation was the best to do that.

"Hyung! Tell me everything." Wonwoo heaved as he settled himself in the crown prince's chamber.

Without wasting another minute Jeonghan blabbered everything
"Minister Kim finally took the bait, instead of the Minster, my man tailed his guard and finally we found that place where he kept everything from drugs, records to poison. He will be hanged tomorrow for all the corruption he did."

"Wait hanged? Did they find those disappearing maids?"

Jeonghan sighed for a long time as he continued "The new Queen wants him to be hanged. I spoke up for Mingyu and told about his help, the queen is willing to forgive the whole clan if the Minister is hanged."

Wonwoo gasped "New Queen? When did that happen?"

"Two days before when Kim was caught. The King was too ill to manage everything, and umm..The New Queen is Iseul's mother, the noble consort."

Wonwoo's mind was all over the place yet he voiced his thoughts "Isn't that strange? Why does she wants to hang the Minister?"

"Well it's obvious, the Minster tried to stab her. And I have to agree she was the best choice for the position of Queen."

Wonwoo looked straight at Jeonghan "He did what?"

Jeonghan decided to move on to a more important topic
"I don't know why he tried to stab her. But I think my mother's disappearance is related with Kim. When he tried to stab the Queen, he screamed something about killing the first Queen. I got all the records and everything let's skim through it."

Jeonghan called out to Seungcheol as he handed Wonwoo a heap of records
"Call Mingyu inside, I guess we can trust him just fine and now that our investigation is official, we need more people."

Wonwoo's heart skipped as he heard the name, he decided to find a lonely corner and skimmed through the endless names of the palace workers while trying to ignore Mingyu yet his stupid eyes kept drifting towards the raven eyed guy.

Jeonghan let Mingyu in on what they were investigating but decided to keep the information about Jangmi a secret, no matter what they had to keep protecting that girl from harm.

Mingyu wanted to talk to the prince to clear things out but the prince was constantly ignoring him.

The next day came in a jiffy and Minister Kim's death silenced information of Nako with it.

Even though the Queen opened a massive investigation under the lead of Jeonghan, no records about those disappearances were found. All those records of Kim were about human trafficking and poisons.
After a month of fruitless investigation the case was closed and it was declared that these people were probably trafficked into the enemy kingdom of Ilchul as slaves.

Mingyu's father became the next head of the Kim Family, majority of the supporters of Minister Kim were killed after him. So by the end, there were no one to disagree with the Queen's decision.